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Qavam replied by sending truckloads of troops roaring through the streets and imposing a curfew. But rioting spread; soon 20 people lay dead. Others made battle banners out of white cloths dipped in the blood of the wounded. They threw themselves before Sherman tanks and pleaded with the soldiers to come over to their side. Teheran began to look like a city gripped by revolution...
...move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight anyone found in the first eleven yards of the isolation belt. Life in the bordering belts was hedged with a strict curfew from dusk to dawn...
Councillor John D. Lynch introduced an order to put undergraduates at the College, Radcliffe, and M.I.T. under the Present curfew applying to Cambridge minors, at yesterday's City Council meeting. The proposal was sent to the sub-committee of public safety...
...curfew would require all students to be off the streets by 9:30 p.m., unless "accompanied by an adult or guardian, or coming from or going to a supervised group activity...
Immediately, 70 miles to the south, Templer clamped a new curfew and a reduced rice ration on the 4,000 inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...